A Book of Simple Living

Ruskin Bond

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(Hardback | ISBN 978-81-930710-0-7 |160 pages | February 2015)

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‘Mist fills the Himalayan valleys, and monsoon rain sweeps across the hills. Sometimes, during the day, a bird visits me—a deep purple whistling thrush. She perches on the window sill, and looks out with me at the rain.’

This personal diary records the many small moments that constitute a life of harmony—with the self, the natural world, and friends, family and passersby. In these pages, we watch a wild plum blossom and the moon come up between two deodar trees; we hear a redstart whistle and the rain drum on a tin roof; we recognize the aftermath of loss and the consolation of old companions.

A Book of Simple Living is a gift of beauty and wisdom from India’s most loved, and most understated, writer.

About the author

Ruskin Bond has written novels, memoirs, short story collections and books of essays and poetry. His recent books include A Time for All Things, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography, I Was the Wind Last Night: New and Collected Poems; A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the HIlls, Friends in Wild Places: Birds, Beasts […]